Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
All poetry is experimental poetry.
The mind is smaller than the eye.
Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
One must read poetry with one's nerves.
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
True villains are extremely photogenic.
Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
A change of style is a change of meaning.
The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Poetry is a means of redemption.
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
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